The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-06
PEW AND PULPIT.

Michigan has 1873 Sunday. schools, 252, >
$40 scholars, AZ, $40 teachers.
The Southern Presbyterian Church has
made its elders eligible to the moderator
ship of Its General Assembly.
Edinburgh is probably the most Presby-
terrain city in the world. 0ut of its 1S1
churches not fewer than 124 are Presbyter-
ian.
The Presbyterian General Assembly re-
solved to raise during this centennial year
the sum of 81, 600 600 as a permanent fund
| for the Board of Ministerial Relief.
a great many men don't go TO church on
Sunday because they do not feel at ease
when they get there. Perhaps If side doors
were provided for them they would feel at
| home.
Mrs. Nouveau Riche-Aw, yes, that's very
pretty, but don't like the title, Common
kind2 don't care how much l have to
pay.
There are 10s days OF fasting or absti-
| nence in the russian church year, and
| they are kept g a rule By the working
class. The Advent fast is kept very
strictly.
| A Catholic paper predicts that thousand
new Catholic schools will dot the Ameri
can landscape before the close of 1887, and
that 200, 600 children will make their abode
in them.
A Sunday. school teacher asked little
| girl of her class if she had been baptized.
YES" said the little girl, two times "
1.-TWO times Why how could that be?"
1T didn't take the first time" said the lit
| tie girl.
'Let Us dine together" said the native
| King to the missionary. with great
pleasure" replied the good man "but 1
must be host" II have planned it differ
entity" said the King. with bleak light in
his eye; you shall be the dinner"
The South Congregational Church at
| Concord, n. H, has extended call to Rev.
Harlan P. Dewey, of Peoria, Ill. Mr..
| Dewey is twenty-five years old. a graduate
of Williams College, and of the last class
at Andover Theological Seminary.
Rev. DR.. Wintner, of Brooklyn, isgather
ing accounts of the memorial services in
honor of Henry Ward Beecher by Jewish
ministers for publication in q work now
being compiled under the direction of the
trustees of Plymouth Church.
In England piece of land was leased
by the church to the crown for 500 years
| in the days of King Alfred. Recently it
reverted to the church of England as being
the identical corporation that leased the
land millennium before.
The circulation of the scriptures in the
whole world since the beginning of the
present century is estimated at 260, 000, 900
| copies, of which 100 600 900 are placed to
the credit of the British, 100000 to the
American and 100000 to all the other
Bible societies.
There are now in the United Presbyterian
| Church "a GAL communicates distributed
through SS5 congregations and Ia mission
stations. Last year the membership re-
ported was 81, 086. being a gain over the
preceding year of 2,215. The present year
shows an increase over last year OF g. $50.
The other day a South Side urchin OF
/ some seven summers was made happy
with the present ofia bow and arrow. Aft
er he had it for few hours be came sob.
bling into the house and said that he had
| lost his arrow. "What became of it, dear?"
] asked his sympathetic mother. 81 s'ot it
up in the air and it nebber came down.
1 desses one of the angels must have
stole it"
Little girl studying Sunday school lesson
| (third chapter of st. Matthew: "Uncle
Henry, what did John wear leather grid
die for2' "a leather griddlel Why, what
do you mean2" Why, it says here, and
the same John had his raiment of camel's
hair and leather griddle about his loins,
and his meal was locusts and wild honey
| Oh, 1 seel To cook his locusts on" And
away she went to Sunday-school.
There are in the diocese of Cleveland
| five congregations composed almost ex-
clusively of farmers who went into the
woods and have cut out for themselves
| homes, comfort, aud in many cases wealth,
thus settling that whole section with a
fixed Catholic population. AT his recent
yi,itation Bishop Gilmour urged the young
people to stick to their lands and avoid the
vices and temptations of towns and cities.
The Oldest Catholic Church records in
the United States, unbroken from the be-
| ginning to the present day, are those of st.
| Augustine, Fla, dating from 1860. The
register of old st. Joseph's Church, in
Philadelphia, begins in 175S: that OF st.
Mary's, of the same city, 1855; st. Marv's,
of Lancaster, Pa, has a register dating
from 1857. The oldest register known to
exist is that of Siena, Italy, which begins
in 1879.
The question of divorce has becomd one
of peculiar interest and Importance in
Switzerland, where divorces have become
| numerous. In ten years, according to
calculation Just made public. 1902 couples
have been divorced, making an average for
the whole country of 81 90 per 1000. The
evil complained of is general, but it is
L mOIe DIOQOuuCcu III buC AAObCobohb Soou
in the Catholic cantons. Reactionary legis-
| lation is under discussion.
The statistics of the growth of the En-
lish Church and of the good deeds done by
cnurchmen during the fifty years reign OF
Queen Victoria are thus summarized: A
carefully drawn up table shows that 5000
churches and places OF worship have been
built IS against 3, 600 by all outside relig-
ious denominations put together. The
home episcopate has been increased by
seven new dioceses and the colonial by
sixty-two. Within the last twenty-five years
S4O5 OOO,0O has been freely aud voluntarily
subscribed for church purposes, and 5 11O,-
900, 600 for the purpose of elementary educa-
ton in voluntary schools-all under the
oversight and governmental OF the church.
The week commencing August has
been set apart by the Southern Methodists
as a week OF prayer, and now comes q
brother who proposes that along with
| PRAYER the church practice abstinence
abstinence from the use OF tooacco-and
that the proceeds OF the economy be col
lected into ageneral fund and appropriated
to the cause of general missions. The
suggestion is a novel one, and II carried
out could do no possible harm, while on
the other hand it would do great deal OF
good il the money raised was appropriated
to home work-to the cause OF education